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This conference included six sessions that ran over one afternoon and the following morning. A reception at the Stanford Faculty Club was held for all attendees at the end of the first day of the conference.

Conference co-chairs:

Steve Tapia (Microsoft)Andrew Bridges (Winston & Strawn LLP)

Chairs Emeritus

James Chadwick (Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP)

1. The Wireless Ecosystem

An update of what is newest and emerging from mobile platforms and devices, from a distribution, content, and payment perspective, and the most relevant legal considerations they raise. Given the explosion in wireless subscribers, bandwidth, devices and applications, it is vital to understand where and how the mobile world is evolving. In keeping with the Conference's tradition, there will be a short tutorial included on how the pieces connect.

3. In The Light and In The Dark: the good and bad side of content regulation

Content regulation is a part of our daily lives whether we know it or not. Censorship, copyright regulation, search ranking, data throttling, and website filtering are all attempts at discriminating among subject matter and controlling access to Internet sites. At least 59 countries overtly impose limits on the freedom of information online, and more are suspected of doing so covertly. This panel will discuss the effect of content regulations on the Internet and electronic commerce; the ways by which content is filtered or otherwise managed now and in the future.

Only a decade ago, people were paid to search the then mostly unknown World Wide Web and direct folks to interesting websites found. Finding a website, exploring where the hyper-links took you and browsing around for unknown websites were activities that early adopters undertook like explorers in an uncharted world. Today, we not only take search for granted, we view it as essential utility for our increasingly online based life. Making travel plans, finding weather conditions, looking for news, doing background checks, checking road conditions, seeking old friends, finding highly-rated restaurants to frequent, getting directions, doing comparison shopping, looking for sports stats, finding cheap gas and many of our other day-to-day activities start with a user, a browser and a search engine.

As a result, the bundle of hot legal issues arising out of search are some of the most challenging but important issues lawyers face today. This panel will start with a technical update on the current state of search and then discuss the vibrant privacy, copyright and other key legal issues that search creates.

If first there was Wikileaks, there are now "****leaks" all over the world with more springing out each week. Has Wikileaks changed the world of information? And if so, what will it be like to live in a "leaks" world? The panel will look at the role of Wikileaks, and the other leak sites, and the impact on traditional press, new media, government and industry, and law.

6. The Crystal Ball: The Interpretations from a Forecaster and Venture Capitalists

This presentation and panel invite the speakers and the audience to get out their digital crystal balls. The session will begin with a presentation by a noted technologies forecaster Paul Saffo of Discern Analytics, who will provide a long-term perspective of the future of digital media.

Venture capitalists with a focus on digital media will provide insights on near-term trends and trajectories (one-three-five years out) in the digital media industry and will comment on the practicality and commercial viability of what the futurists see in their crystal balls in the longer term.